Khairul Islam
Research Assistant at University of Virginia
Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolKhairul Islam is a PhD candidate and research assistant at the University of Virginia specializing in interpretability of temporal data with deep learning, bringing a decade of experience across research and industry. He previously worked as an iOS software engineer on Samsung SmartThings and has practical ASR experience from work on Bengali language models, giving him a rare blend of mobile, speech, and temporal-AI expertise. An active Kaggle competitor, he uses competitions to quickly prototype and validate novel ML techniques against real-world datasets. Based in Charlottesville, he combines rigorous academic research with production-minded engineering, often focusing on making sequence models more transparent and trustworthy.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bangladesh University of Engineering and TechnologyDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at University of Virginia
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Github Skills (48)
temporal10
pytorch-lightning10
uncertainty10
temporal-data9
prophet9
time-series-forecasting9
forecasting9
interpretation8
python8
deep-learning8
time-series8
machine-learning8
pytorch8
decomposition7
gpu7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
khairulislam/Timeseries-Explained
May 2023 - Feb 2025
Saliency Analysis for Timeseries using Local Interpretation methods
Contributions:4 PRs, 150 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 9 months
deep-learninginterpretationmachine-learningsensitivity-analysistime-series
UVA-MLSys/DS7406-Spring-2024
Sep 2022 - Jan 2025
DS7406 - Machine Learning Systems course repository
Contributions:2 PRs, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
machine-learning-systemspythonmachine-learningdata-science
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